Note:This is really just a cross post from Flickr and my 365 days project. But since jameel and I were talking about it in the last post, I decided I should copy it here. I'm wondering, am I (and probably Jameel) the only person who actually knows what a Sun Sword is? And why its not a lightsaber? Blah, now I want to do more superpower pictures. This project is making me lose my mind. For GodMC's sake will some hot chick come and do a glamour photoshoot with me to bring me back to sanity?

Ok, the fact that I've spent the last 3 hours since midnight doing this and I'm so excited about it is just a testament to how geeky I really am at heart. *sigh*

Anyway, it has become clear to me that if I am to survive, nay to lead, in the post-apocalyptic dystopia the world will clearly fall into any day now, I must be prepared to enter into battle. And to battle effectively I will need a weapon. So just after midnight, I went down to my basement and began to fashion the weapon I have wanted since I was six years old. The Sun Sword.

For the record, though the Sun Sword is clearly similar to(and obviously inspired by) a lightsaber, it is not a lightsaber. It is oh so much infinitely more awesome. I just want to point that out, because putting this picture together took me an extra hour that I spent subtly tweaking the effect so that it looks as it does as opposed to the more solid halo-like glow the lightsaber has.

The fact that I, a grown man, have not only thought about this for more than 10 seconds, but spent 3 hours in the middle of the night working on it, pretty much means that I never deserve to get laid again as long as I live. But somewhere, somewhen, the 6-year-old me is smiling from ear to ear.

How do you remember Thundarr the Barbarian and not remember the Sun Sword? I always thought that was the most memorable part of it. Or did you just really want to boink Ariel the Sorceress so much that you don't remember anything else?

it may seem that way at first glance but...

No, I was actually thinking of the Chinese sailors and such who settled in Okinawa during the time that it was an independent kingdom that were highly influential in the development of Karate in it's early stages.

Re: it may seem that way at first glance but...

Re: it may seem that way at first glance but...

I don't believe there were sun sickles as this would be pre apocalyptic.

Though there is a good chance that they would have influenced the development of kama technique.

Shorin is afterall a Japanese pronounciation of Shaolin.

I'm sure there were sickle type weapons in various Chinese systems, right now I'm too lazy to go downstairs and look up specifics on specific forms and types of sickles. I am convinced though that some of these weapons were designed by people who woke up in seriously bad moods.